5 Directions At once

This morning was a bit chaotic.  While Bruce was feeding he realized the noise he had been hearing was the hub on the drive wheel on the feed cart. It  had worn the bolt holes and they were slipping.  While he waited for feed to mix he used his cell phone to call and leave a message that he would need parts.  He also ordered lime screenings for the ramp we build by the blower where we unload corn and breaker rock to build up our driveway.  He made a third call to the trucker so we could sell some cull cows.  I started milking myself and when Bruce was finished feeding he joined me.  It wasn't long and he had a return phone call from our feed cart dealer so I kept milking and he explained what was worn and what parts he needed. He again started helping milk until he got another call from the feed cart dealer verifying what they would send.  It wasn't long and the first load of screenings arrived and Bruce had to leave to point out where it needed to be dumped.  Ed stopped in after getting a load of silage for us.  Eventually we managed to finish milking and headed home for breakfast.  Bruce no more than got his shoes off and the trucker was here for the cull cows so he put his shoes on and loaded the cows.  Eventually he managed to get breakfast.  When he ordered the screenings he was hoping it would come soon but he wasn't expecting it before we got done milking and he definitely didn't expect the breaker rock for the driveway to come today.  Part of the afternoon was spent using the tractor and blade and skidsteer to  level the rock.  We need to order 1 more load and then cover all of it with gravel.  That is one of the realities of living in the country, we need to build our own driveways. The good news is it has been many years since we added gravel so now it will have the right slope and the water will go where it should and hopefully cause less damage in heavy rains.  By mid afternoon we got a call about the delivery of the heifers we purchased.  The owner would have liked to deliver them today but Bruce was in the process of replacing 3 mattresses and couldn't find his hammer drill.  As it turned out, we think the drill had gone home with Jim and we had to borrow one to use to finish the project.  I bleached the stalls that needed it so we should be ready for new animals fairly quickly tomorrow.  Let the adventures begin : )